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Post by talkingstones on Feb 29, 2016 20:55:49 GMT -5
Hi All! I've been absent because I've been moving 800 miles from NY and getting settled on an old farm in the Ohio River bluffs near Cincinatti. (I know.... What can I say? We got lost in a corn field out here and decided we had to move. Go figure.). Anyway, turns out that the farm grows fossils. Everything is fossil here, mainly sea sediment but I found a piece today that is kind of different. It's Big. I picked it upninitially because it looked different and I thought it might be agate. It's shaped like a bone though. My first thought was a cow bone because about 50 years ago there were cattle here but it's rock and 50 years isn't long enough for that to happen. It also seems bigger than a cow bone would be. Anyway, here are pictures...  |
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Post by talkingstones on Feb 29, 2016 20:56:53 GMT -5
More photos to follow when it finally loads up to photobucket.... Grrrr!!!
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Post by talkingstones on Feb 29, 2016 21:10:07 GMT -5
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Post by talkingstones on Feb 29, 2016 21:12:05 GMT -5
Thoughts appreciated!  ? |
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Post by rockjunquie on Feb 29, 2016 21:18:44 GMT -5
I dunno, looks like a bone to me. Thanks for sharing that ... and your grocery list.  |
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Post by Pat on Feb 29, 2016 21:58:29 GMT -5
Looks like a bone to me, too. Hope some of the fossil folks take a look. Neat to find that on hour own property!
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Post by jamesp on Mar 1, 2016 5:54:55 GMT -5
The 5th photo looks like layers of deposition.
The last photo sure looks like some hard material at the chip.
See if it scratches with a knife Cathy. It may just be limestone/calcium carbonate. Limestone notorious for having odd shapes.
Do you have a lot of limestone at your new home ?
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Post by talkingstones on Mar 1, 2016 8:00:56 GMT -5
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Post by jamesp on Mar 1, 2016 8:21:30 GMT -5
Limestone can take many shapes like photo 3 in 2nd set looks like a concretion. You are in the marine zone. Bones would be whale, manatee if they went that far north.
The first piece is most likely a chunk of limestone.
But, that marine floor is probably a whole lot different than the Florida area floor.
If you are in the Limestone state there will be a lot of info on it.
Looks like you will have a fossil collection in short order and lucky you.
You should have sweet soils. great veggie garden
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 1, 2016 9:32:14 GMT -5
It is an odd ball,but it has the looks of a joint in one area of the structure....I do know that Prehistoric Buffalo roamed that area of the country,as did in SD,ND and other plains states....I have a couple bones and teeth, in my collection..
How far are you from a University? They have a Natural Science building that would ID this for you....
That's one thing I hate about photos,you can see the object,but the detail just isn't quite there........
It could be a limestone matrix on and (or) around the bone.....Some rock can copy cat a bone structure too...Interesting piece for sure-have you cleaned it up?
I see white substance on the piece too,what is that? That steers me away from it being bone-do you see cell structures on the bone (top and bottom)? Most all bone,new and old will have some type of cell structure on it...
I know,many questions and no answers...But that is the best I can do,by looking at photos....
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Post by Peruano on Mar 1, 2016 9:47:22 GMT -5
I'm going to vote against it being a bone (fossil or otherwise). The sort of parallel (concentric ) rings on the 6th photo are not really parallel enough or regular like they would be if they were growth rings in bone or even most shells. I vote with James that it is likely some concretion. I could be swayed to consider some weird shell formation but I would need heavy persuasion. Keep scrounging those hills and dales. Tom
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Post by talkingstones on Mar 1, 2016 20:05:07 GMT -5
Ok! It did scratch. Photo to follow. The line was clean and right by my fingernail. What does that indicate?  |
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Post by talkingstones on Mar 1, 2016 20:10:19 GMT -5
Thanks all for input! Fossilman, 58 minutes from downtown Cincinati so will check into it. I haven't cleaned it yet, just rinsed the dirt off. The white is scratching or rubbing on the surface. Cell structure... Haven't looked at it under magnification yet and it would need a cleanup to do so. How do I clean it?
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 1, 2016 20:20:21 GMT -5
Just Dawn dish soap and hot water-old toothbrush.....
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Post by talkingstones on Mar 1, 2016 20:26:27 GMT -5
Will give it a shot!
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Post by tandl on Mar 1, 2016 21:00:23 GMT -5
i can see the laminae in one photo that looks like sponge fossils i find here . it appears to be silicified
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Post by talkingstones on Mar 1, 2016 21:53:08 GMT -5
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Post by tandl on Mar 1, 2016 22:26:00 GMT -5
Favosites coral . did you use acid , it cleaned up great
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2016 22:27:49 GMT -5
Good girl, I see you are eating your yogurt. I hope its live culture...  As for lunch meat, which do you prefer? I like sopressata and souse. Sorry your stone may just be a stone. But, maybe some smarter than me will step up. Eta: ted tandl is indeed smarter than me! |
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Post by talkingstones on Mar 1, 2016 23:39:57 GMT -5
Now Scott, you KNOW that none of them are just stones, lol!!!! Coming from a place where you can't pick stones, it's pretty neat to be able to walk out by my barns and pick up a piece of something that was living 600 million years ago while taking the dogs for a walk and then find out what it is!!! Pretty cool stuff, even for a yogurt eating transplant like myself! I'm liking this place called Indiana!!! Interesting stuff here!!!!
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